"The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity."

-- Helen Foster Snow

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“Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub
“It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.44
“We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.”
“Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!”
“Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.”
“The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.”

Source : "Interview: Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk basically wrote ‘Firefly’ fanfic for ‘Con Men’". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. March 11, 2015.
“He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.”
“Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!”

Source : Jim Moore (1996). “By Way of the Wind”, p.105, Sheridan House, Inc.

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